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I recently friend requested a bunch of people I went to high school with who all thought I was a weird loser and I am very excited that I am doing much better t
by wincy 4y ago
I recently friend requested a bunch of people I went to high school with who all thought I was a weird loser and I am very excited that I am doing much better than all of them. It’s made me like my social media feed a lot more seeing the school bully who loved ICP post about how “he’s ready to find the right girl and settle down (at 35)
So I guess I use social media for the exact reason you don’t like social media. Nobody’s supposed to like that stuff, but I mean, why else would you care what everyone else is doing other than to compare status?
- pasabagi 4y agoIf you come from a wealthy background, you get the really depressing version: the school bully who loved ICP posts about how they got a new job with McKinsey, the slimy moron who used to spread shit about you is the CEO of a up-and-coming startup, and the guy who was too dumb to understand how truly dumb he was is now at a senior position in a thinktank.
- Andrex 4y agoThat's the disingenuous presupposition. A more positive one would be those people actually got better at their skills and improved as people. I'd like to think I'm a better person than I was in high school. But if you're constantly exposed to their social feeds, you would have the data and probably know better. :)
- pasabagi 4y agoI guess from plain statistics, you could say that the number of talented people from wealthy backgrounds is roughly the same as talented people generally, so my feeling is that there is a sizable slice of jobs where you just secure rents through connections and you don't actually need to be talented. From my observations, some industries (film, for instance) will give people a chance, then get rid of them if they don't work out - so a lot of people I vaguely knew had very brief acting careers. Other companies seem to trundle along with really dysfunctional leadership, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, I suspect it's because the explicit aim of the company (say, mining) is not what the company is actually doing (say, some kind of rent extraction) so it doesn't matter that the CEO has no skills to speak of. Also, when you know the people, and you see like an interview they've given, you can usually tell if they're bullshitting.
- throwaway5959 4y agoSounds like not much has changed for you since high school.
- wincy 4y agoI mean nowadays I get free lunches from recruiters and at conventions instead of being on the school free lunch program but I suppose not
- Andrex 4y agoI'm not sure continuous exposure to schadenfreude is any healthier than the more depressing topics, to be honest.
- wincy 4y agoI mean I don’t actually revel in it, I was being a bit cheeky. I just wanted to reconnect with high school people during Covid so I friend requested a ton of people. It’s sad seeing a guy who was in the “gifted and talented program” with me is apparently now a janitor who posts pictures every day about what concert or sports game he’s at and he’s always alone. I was excited for him because he took a picture with a woman and I thought he’d met someone but it turned out to be his sister.
- eastbound 4y agoHaha, I don’t take pictures of myself alone, so I guess for anyone you notice like this, there are thousands invisible lonely boys.
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